We have been waiting for this moment for a while. We wanted to see that SSD drives of decent size drop under 1 euro per GB and now we lived to see the day that the price of a 500MB/s drives got to 0.761 € per GB.

We are talking about the cheapest readily available SSD in Europe, the Agility 3 120GB with 6GB/s that is available at Amazon and will ship for free to you for €91.40.

The is capable of 525MB/s read spends, while the write speed hits 500MB/s. It features a SandForce SF-2281 controller and it will definitely speed up your computer especially if you are still using HDD as your system drive.

The 240GB version of a drive is selling between €188.70 and €201 depending on the country while the massive 480GB drive is selling for €449 again below the €1 per gigabyte mark.

You can get the 120GB here 240GB is listed here and the big guy, the 480GB model is here.

In addition to the regular 2.5-inch and the new 1.8-inch SSDs, OCZ is apparently also working on 3.5-inch versions of Vertex 2 and Agility 2 solid state drives.

Although these aren't announced yet, thanks to the tip from our sources we can share some info about these upcoming SSDs. Both Vertex 2 and Agility 2 3.5-inch SSDs will have the same specs as their 2.5-inch brethren, so you can expect speeds of up to 285MB/s for maximum write and 275MB/s for maximum read as well as 250MB/s for sustained write. The 4k random write figures ends up at 50,000 IOPS for both drives or at least for 120 and 240GB versions.

Both Vertex 2 and the Agility 2 3.5-inch SSDs will end up in three versions with 120, 240 and 480GB capacity and will feature SATA II 3.0Gbps interface.

The new 3.5-inch Vertex 2 and Agility 2 should appear in retail/e-tail pretty soon and we'll update the article with prices accordingly.